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To participate and actually defend itself a on the substanc . Or was does it do . Is it all bombast all the time until we get to potentially an Impeachment Vote. I want to delve deeper into that point and also tell our viewers here, as were at the top of the 11 00 hour on the east coast In Washington, youre watching msnbcs special live uninterrupted coverage of what all agree is a historic day on capitol hill. C this is the preparation for a house vote on resolution 660, providing for the rules for the potential impeachmentth of the current president donald trump. What you see on your veen is ...

The president completely backtracked one using his hote for theng g7. i want to bring in more reporting, viewers will note we'veno been on triple zeros foa few minutes. most of the votes are in. garrett, i want you to walk us through what you're hearing and i'll bringar in heidi as well o of i washington. to both of you, really teeing up the question, what will happen next when you look at the people who may leave their party on this great. >> reporter: it looks liketh they're calling this first vote here so we may stop when they start the second. this is the vote we've been watching for all d...

>> we're going to leave the escalating numbers on the screen as berereport this out in realtime. rarely is the floor of the house this exciting. >> that climbing yea number, 183, joined by one independent is this united states house on the road to passing rules to provide for the potential impeachment of the sitting president. what is the magic number they need toe hit? >> 218 if everyone is present. i didn'tne see the totals on th last vote. i believe that will be the number today. democrats have the number to clear it here. t they can afford to lose -- a half dozen or more wouldn't be politi...

Meeting with a number of these moderate republicans that they are deeply troubled by the president's behavior. but theypr view this vote todays largely a procedural vote, and that many of their objections, just like their leadership has been voicing, have been along the process lines. to garrett's point, many republicans felt like if they were going to dissent, this is not the vote they are going to dissent on.to we need to keep that in mind as we look at the vote totals. this is not comparable to previous initial votes on impeachment in that sense. i also want to correct for the record, ari, ...

Attention. there's going to be an attempt toe paint this as a strictly partisan politics, essentially. there is a tendency, understandably, amongen people just sort of, "oh, they're all politicians, they're all out for themselves." >> because it's breaking news, i have to correct myself, my apologies, i'm told the chief deputy whip of the democratic caucus has found an nbc camera coming out of this vote. congressman from michigan, dan kildee, thanks for joining me. >> thank you very much. >> does today's vote mean you're going to impeach donald trump? >> it's a step that sets the framework for...